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Dan Bilefsky

Dan Bilefsky is a correspondent based in London. He was previously a reporter based in Paris, where he covered, among other stories, the 2015 terrorist attacks on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket. More

Dan Bilefsky is a correspondent based in London. He was previously a reporter based in Paris, where he covered, among other stories, the 2015 terrorist attacks on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket.

From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Bilefsky was based in Prague, where he reported on eastern and central Europe, the Balkans and the Baltic states. In 2010, he and a Times colleague, Doreen Carvajal, investigated the whereabouts of Ratko Mladic, a Bosnian Serb who was suspected of war crimes for his role in the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, and had been on the run for 15 years. Mr. Mladic was arrested the following year. The two were awarded a New York Times Publisher’s Award for their work.

From Prague, Mr. Bilefsky also covered the independence of Kosovo and the war between Russia and Georgia, in 2008; the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in 2009; and the plane crash that killed Poland’s president Lech Kaczynski, in 2010. He also wrote about a sex and corruption scandal in the Czech Republic, chronicled blood feuds in Albania and wrote about a former neo-Nazi in Poland who became an orthodox Jew.

Mr. Bilefsky has reported frequently from Turkey. In 2012, he wrote a series of articles on the challenges to human rights in the country.

From 2011 to 2012, Mr. Bilefsky covered Queens as a metropolitan reporter for The Times. He covered a bizarre case in which a man sexually assaulted his girlfriend, and then framed her for a series of brazen crimes that had never taken place.

A native of Montreal, Mr. Bilefsky studied history and literature at the University of Pennsylvania and received a master’s degree in European politics and society at Oxford. He started his journalism career at The Financial Times before joining The Wall Street Journal in Brussels, where he covered politics, terrorism and the European beer industry. He joined The International Herald Tribune (now The International New York Times) in Brussels in 2005.